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Buffy Season 5...Dawn?!?!? **spoilers**
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Posted by: mitchb2

So I talk my wife into trying Buffy again.
And the sister Dawn appears from nowhere.

"WHAT?!?" says my wife.
"Don't worry everytime they do something that seems lame in this show, they turn around and make it great."

But they didn't. So we watched episode 2. And still Dawn is there, with no explanation as to why or for how long.

And it seems like Cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch.

What did we miss? This is extremely lame, and pretty much devalues the show at this point. Were they desperate for an angle?

Lame.

Posted by: jwjody

It gets explained in a couple more eps. Just keep watching.

J

Posted by: LoadStar

Yup. Keep watching. You'll find that the answer plays a key role in what happens in the season.

Posted by: Attack

quote:
Originally posted by LoadStar
Yup. Keep watching. You'll find that the answer plays a key role in what happens in the season.

OMG, LOL

Anyways you need to watch the next few. I was also like Umm... Buffy doesn't have a sister for the first few episodes.

Posted by: AJRitz

Definitely keep watching. Season 5 is one of my favorite Buffy seasons. You indicated spoilers in your thread title, so I'll give it away within spoiler tags here. But I strongly encourage you NOT to read the spoiler and to just let it unfold for you.

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)
"Dawn" is a mystical key whose blood opens a portal to another dimension, which opening would free a goddess who's been trapped on our plane. She's been trapped here because she was too nasty to allow to exist where she was (and where she had her full power). The "key" is actually pure energy, and had been hidden for a long time in various forms by a group of monks dedicated to keeping the key hidden. When the goddess, who is incessantly searching for the key and must find it and use it before her window of opportunity closes, got too close, the monks gave the key human form. They then placed the key in the care of the Slayer, where they believed it would be safest. In order to protect the key, they gave essentially the entire world created memories of "Dawn's" existence. Bottom line is that Dawn IS HUMAN, and has no idea that she is the key.

Posted by: zaknafein

Everything Joss does he does for a reason. Stick with it.

Posted by: firerose818

AJ Ritz - that is probably the best explanation for Dawn that I have read.

Stick with it, season 5 is great!

-Rose

Posted by: bonscott87

Yes it will all make sense. You are seeing Dawn from the perspective of Buffy and the rest of the scoobies. You don't know any more then they do and that increases the mystery of the whole thing. The writing on Buffy is top notch, no doubt.

Posted by: SparkleMotion

quote:
Originally posted by mitchb2
What did we miss? This is extremely lame, and pretty much devalues the show at this point. Were they desperate for an angle?

Lame.

Sorry to break it to you, but the only thing "lame" here is so quickly dismissing the twist (and then completely missing the point).

Posted by: dansee

quote:
Originally posted by SparkleMotion
Sorry to break it to you, but the only thing "lame" here is so quickly dismissing the twist (and then completely missing the point).

Besides, everybody knows that you have to wait until season 6 before you can REALLY question the place of Dawn in the show. ;)

As the others said, the fifth season has a good story arc, and it's worth sticking with it. The payoff is huge.

Posted by: SparkleMotion

I don't know anything about Buffy season 6 and even if I did there's not a power on this Earth or any other that can make me spoil it!

:D

Posted by: dansee

quote:
Originally posted by SparkleMotion
I don't know anything about Buffy season 6 and even if I did there's not a power on this Earth or any other that can make me spoil it!

Spoiler, schmoiler. I mean, come on: Once they threw in that the squirrel was a psychic messenger, and Xander's hair all fell out, the season lost all its credibilty. So spoil away, Sparkle. :D

Posted by: LoadStar

quote:
Originally posted by dansee
Spoiler, schmoiler. I mean, come on: Once they threw in that the squirrel was a psychic messenger, and Xander's hair all fell out, the season lost all it's credibilty. So spoil away, Sparkle. :D

But you gotta admit, that part where they revealed Buffy was an alien hybrid was pretty interesting. I wouldn't want to spoil that part for anyone.

Posted by: SparkleMotion

And then Joss used that same "alien hybrid" crap in his script for Alien:Resurrection! He's played out, man.

;)

Posted by: UnionBuster

It was forshadowed in the (at least) the last episode of the fourth season.

Posted by: dansee

quote:
Originally posted by SparkleMotion
And then Joss used that same "alien hybrid" crap in his script for Alien:Resurrection! He's played out, man.

You know, everybody says that, but having the Alien turn out to be Danny DeVito was a stroke of damn genius if you ask me! I mean, who would have thunk it?

Posted by: smak

I wasn't too glad about the end where it turned out it was all a dream and Buffy and pals were all in an insane asylum.

Kinda bummer ending.

-smak-

Posted by: JYoung

Dawn is Buffy's sister.
She was just living with their father for the first four years.

Posted by: ccwf

quote:
Originally posted by dansee
Once they threw in that the squirrel was a psychic messenger

I loved the psychic squirrel, hidden harbinger of doom….

Back to the original point, I remember thinking when first seeing Dawn, “What? Hmm… Maybe she's from some part of the movie I don't remember.” (She's not.)

Posted by: AJRitz

Yeah - and the scene where they have to convince Anya that the only way to defeat the squirrel is to confront it with an army of bunnies -- HILARIOUS!

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

Geez, I'm gonna have to watch it again--I don't remember HALF this stuff!